Interesting thing about The Trial... Franz Kafka never wanted you to read it. He never even finished it. Before he died, Kafka asked a friend to burn all of his unpublished materials. But instead his friend read it and decided to publish it anyway. So I need to thank his friend for not letting The Trial be destroyed.The story is about a man Joseph K that is arrested and placed on trial. What he's on trial for he can never find out though. Most of the book is Joseph going to different people to get advice on his trial and to find out what he is actually accused of. The book has a very dreamlike quality to it, or more accurately nightmarish. Characters show up out of nowhere and not everything makes logical sense. I guess it actually is the definition of Kafkaesque. The whole book has a very paranoid and anxious tone to it and Joseph gets nowhere in finding out anything the whole time despite people talking to him about the case.
Very weird and memorable. I'll have to see the film now. A
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